docvisits {zic}R Documentation

Demand for Health Care Data

Description

This data set gives the number of doctor visits in the last three months for a sample of German male individuals in 1994. The data set is taken from Riphahn et al. (2003) and is a subsample of the German Socioeconomic Panel (SOEP). In contrast to Riphahn et al. (2003) only male individuals from the last wave are considered. See Jochmann (2009) for further details.

Usage

data(docvisits)

Format

This data frame contains 1812 observations on the following 22 variables:

docvisits
number of doctor visits in last 3 months
age
age
agesq
age squared / 1000
health
health satisfaction, 0 (low) - 10 (high)
handicap
1 if handicapped, 0 otherwise
hdegree
degree of handicap in percentage points
married
1 if married, 0 otherwise
schooling
years of schooling
hhincome
household monthly net income, in German marks / 1000
children
1 if children under 16 in the household, 0 otherwise
self
1 if self employed, 0 otherwise
civil
1 if civil servant, 0 otherwise
bluec
1 if blue collar employee, 0 otherwise
employed
1 if employed, 0 otherwise
public
1 if public health insurance, 0 otherwise
addon
1 if add-on insurance, 0 otherwise

References

Jochmann, M. (2009). ``What Belongs Where? Variable Selection for Zero-Inflated Count Models with an Application to the Demand for Health Care'', available at: http://personal.strath.ac.uk/markus.jochmann.

Riphahn et al. (2003), ``Incentive Effects in the Demand for Health Care: A Bivariate Panel Count Data Estimation'', Journal of Applied Econometrics, 18, 387-405.

Wagner et al. (2007), ``The German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) – Scope, Evolution and Enhancements'', Schmollers Jahrbuch, 127, 139-169.


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